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Firmware Update (v2.00)

Hi everyone. Here’s a preview of the next PLAYSTATION 3 firmware update (2.00) scheduled to release within the next few days. This update contains features that will allow you to receive news directly from us on everything PlayStation, enhance the way you access and organize your media, and allow you to customize your XMB in new ways.

Here’s a closer look at the new features:

You’ll notice this icon in the Network category of the XMB. This is the Information Board.

Once activated, you’ll notice scrolling headlines in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. We’ll be delivering the latest news on new games, PLAYSTATION Store updates, hardware, accessories and lots more through the Information Board. Click on the Information Board icon and you’ll be able to see all of the headlines and click through for more detail. The headlines and associated stories will be updated on a regular basis. You can choose not to display the Information Board, but you never know what you might miss, so I’d recommend keeping it on.

We’ve added a nice enhancement to Remote Play called Remote Start, to use Remote Play locally or from a Wi-Fi hotspot, you needed to make sure that your PS3 was on. With Remote Start this is no longer necessary. As long as your PS3 is in standby mode, you’ll be able to turn your PS3 on remotely via the PSP. You can then use Remote Play to access media on your PS3, and when you’re finished you can put your PS3 back into standby mode.

Another feature we’ve added with this update is the ability to set themes on your PS3. Themes will change the whole look of your XMB; the background, icons, and in some cases sounds on your XMB will completely change. We will be providing themes on PlayStation.com and through the PLAYSTATION Store. Once you have downloaded a theme, under Settings go to Theme Settings, select Theme and then choose a theme to display or install a new theme. We are also providing the ability for you to get creative and make your own original themes.

We’ve also added a new way to organize your photos and music on the PS3 – you can now create custom playlists for all of your music and photos.

Finally, regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m using a new avatar. You will see that logo above on your XMB representing the new PLAYSTATION Network category. You’ll find the PLAYSTATION Store and Account Management in this category.

We’ve added several other features in this update. I’ll soon be back with more details with a quick video demo of some of the new features.

Be heard, people… Don’t allow this to continue. All I can say. Sony just got trounced in Japan by the xbox 360 sales too. Sony is in trouble. Big time. Everyone is leaving the company and now this. No xmb in game. What a joke! Sony, you let me down too many times.

Since sony doesn’t wanna tell you why they can’t give you xmb in game… I will. It’s because they split their ram allocations up for the OS and in order to run a game and xmb it’d kill the system. It would run slow as hell. thanks, Sony!

PSN will always be garbage until in-game XMB releases. I can’t believe you even bothered with this stuff when you knew we all want 1 major thing: In-game XMB. I don’t know why you’d waste your time on this garbage when you should be focusing on major aspects of the PSN like….. IN-GAME XMB!

Are you people kidding? This is sweet! True, I would like in game XMB, but that is not that big of a deal. Also in game music I would probably only use for online and on games that have bad music, which are few.

Sony just punched us all in the guts and then took our candy. Sony, since you’re not answering any questions… why don’t you ponder this one. What are you doing to secure our investment in your company as we did buy this 400 to 600 dollar boat? All the games you’ve released have got garbage scores. Your software lacks. Your sales are sluggish… What gives?

Eric Lempel says,”We’ve added several other features in this update. I’ll soon be back with more details with a quick video demo of some of the new features.”
Umm, I hope these other details include in game XMB and AVI play back features. Anything outside of these two updates, I may not even download it.

I have to say, that having the ability to better manage images and music is a big bonus. I have about 3,500 images spanning 7 years on my PS3, and it’s nearly impossible to view them in a reasonable way. Thanks Sony!

Please tell me there’s much more info to come. This is getting a little depressing, if this is it.

You know what’s even worse… They’re not allowing us to arrange the stupid ass PSN games we’ve bought the way we want to. We have to ahve them all palced the way Sony wants to. What a joke! Sony, I really hate you right now. Like… bad. Only, I don’t want to invest more money on a much more capable machine since I’ve wasted thousands on yours.

Boooo, no in-game xmb no 2.00
lol good way to ruin christmas with the likely hood of no in-game xmb. What was added to even go to the next non-decibal number? xmb themes was done in PSP without a fw increase (i.e. 4.0 instead of 3.7 or w/e it was) adding a icon doesn’t result in the change or the RSS ticker feed. Remote start same deal. the only 2 things people wanted in 2.00 aren’t there and stuff everyone expected for a random incremental fw update was all that was left. This should be at 1.94 or 1.95 update at best

Christmas was already ruind by Sony… Look at the comeitions line-up and look at ours. We have uncharted. They have like 3 to our 1 game. It’s a joke. Sony just flat out wants out of the console business altogether.

Some of you people are nauseating. Just because you assumed an update ending in a solid number (X.0) was going to be a big update, it’s not Sony’s fault. It’s yours for assuming and believing rumors. If Sony says they are working on it, then they are working on it.
ANY Update is a good update. As long as Sony keep providing updates to this awesome system, then I’ll keep being happy about them.

It’s been 1 year since Sony launched almost… 1 year is more than enough time to give us what we wanted. Motorstorm has the worst damn soundtrack ever! I don’t play it cause all the music is complete f’n garbage! I mean all of it… I’d love to be able to slap some of my bands music onto my ps3 or MAtthew Good or U2 or Echo & the bunnymen… anything other than the trite drivl that’s on there. But no!!!!!

guys, anyone expecting in game xmb support is lost on Sony… They don’t understand what that means. They can’t wrap their ehads around how Microsoft has been doing it for 3 years now and they can’t even access it, let alone getting it up to speed. I said it once… Uncharted will be my last game for the Ps3, I believe so. I hate to say it, but I’m sinking too much money into Sony and I could be buying guitar equipment and other stuff. I’ve bought 30 Blu-rays to date. 12 ps3 games… 17 PSN game downlaods. Add on packs. I’m done. I’m really done this time. Gameblow will be changed to a pro xbox site.

It’s obvious there isn’t in-game XMB in it. It’s Sony, come on! If there was in-game XMB they wouldn’t stop bragging, and talk about how good the PSN now is. I wish they would do that, because PSN is garbage right now, and in-game XMB isn’t happening this year.